Re: [xml-dev] RE: Schemaless XML?

On 10/12/2016 11:36 AM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> "Deferred" is an excellent way to put it. It's not so much that no one
> will ever want to apply a schema to the data or derive a schema from
> it.  Rather, it's that decisions about schemas can come later, in the
> field, made by people consuming or creating documents.  They may not
> even be formal decisions.

It's much the same as with requirements.  Even if there are no formal 
requirements, they exist informally in the mind of the document 
writer/programmer/software engineer/...  Especially when other people 
are involved, it may be useful to articulate them into a set of written 
requirements.  But they are in there somewhere anyway.